China Is the Place for Exotic Juices

by John Pasden

28 Jul 2007

Just in the past few months I’ve had blueberry juice (in Beijing) and bayberry juice (in Shanghai):

This got me thinking about some of the other interesting juices in China. Although not so exotic, I never saw watermelon juice and cucumber juice on the menus back home (no, I have never hung out in health spas). But they’re regular features on the menu in Shanghai.

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They sell asperagus, ginseng, bamboo, and strawberry juice in the supermarket here, (plus more I can’t remember) and we’ve tried the bambooo and strawberry. Bamboo was sweetish, and the strawberry was ok until you got to the chunky strawberry goo at the bottom.

I’ve given up on orange juice – most of what I see can only be called “orange beverage”. I drink a lot of coconut juice, and aloe flavoured yogurt.
the most interesting drinks I’ve found are in pizza hut – they seem to be quite creative there. the “twin berry” one seems to have actual blackcurrants in it – one of my favourite berries. 🙂

Have you seen the new sports drink in Japan? It’s called “Calpis”. Say it 3 times allowed and what does it sound like? Can you imagine how that might sound on a commercial, “I feel so refreshed after drinking Calpis!”